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Posted March 10, 2017
Last chance to browse 500+ deals up to 90% off and explore our handmade Collections!



UPDATE: There's still time to join in our early spring celebrations! You need to hurry, though, because our fully blossomed Spring Sale will be going away after Sunday. It would be a real shame to miss these deals - they're just so neatly stacked and packed inside our hand-made collections. Oh, and if you're having trouble finding the one for you, feel free to take our perfectly reliable <span class="bold">Quiz</span> first.



--Original announcement follows--

Hey look, spring is coming! We can tell by the birds, and the bees, and all these games on sale: all tidy and organized in handmade collections by your friendly crew at GOG.com – the digital game store with a spring in its step.

Indeed, The Spring Sale has come with 500+ deals and handmade collections up to 90% off!


The spirit of vernal discovery and neatness shines through our spring collections: get straight to Our Favorite RPGs or Our Favorite First Person Shooters; see a breakdown of 10 Games With Wacky Gadgets; take a timid glance at our Games You Should Play At Night – there's bound to be a collection for you, there's one for every kind of gamer!

This week over half a thousand deals spring up at once, including our favorites like Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (-75%), Darkest Dungeon (-50%), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – GOTY (-40%), Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (-10%), and way more in the 6-day Spring Sale.

Time to make your collections blossom!

The Spring Sale ends on March 12, 11:00 PM UTC, 3:00 PM PST, 6:00 PM EST.
Posted March 08, 2017
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HereForTheBeer: I think I'm hitting a wall in my library. 500 games on sale, give or take, and I came up with just one to pick up. Well, two, but I'm not yet ready to get The Witcher 3. And it's not that I already have a huge percentage of the catalog - sitting at 312 now with the purchase of Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships yesterday.

Anyway, another nice sale.
Funny, "Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships" is likely to be my only purchase this time around too. A tip of the hat to Treasure, who keeps up the "Where to find missing game manuals" GOGMix, for finding a manual for the expansion!

I've tried to play the base Sea Dogs in the past, but could never find so much as a list of command keys for it, much less a manual, rendering it unplayable.
Posted March 08, 2017
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phaolo: You have to mark your games as owned first. You can import your data from Gog with the button "Get From GOG".
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RupertMurdock: The games you own will get a new tag 'My tags' with the value 'owned'. You can set the filter to exclude those games.
Thanks for the advice, but it doesn't work very well. I imported my data while signed in, then used "My tags" to to exclude my "Owned" games, but it still lists a lot of the games that I own. I own over 500, so it would be a lot of work to do it manually; and all just because GOG hasn't go around to implementing either an easier to read & parse sales display list or a better, more flexible filtering system. Like I said I probably won't buy anything this sale because GOG doesn't make it easy enough for me to find game that interest me without having to weed through hundreds of games that have no interest for me. I have others things to which I want to devote that amount of time.
Posted March 08, 2017
So funny story. I didn't want to make a new topic and usually there's a lot of hanging out in sale threads so you get to be harassed. You can tell I don't have any "computer" friends (in other words, if I told anyone else this story they'd think I was speaking Swahili) so you all get subjected to it.

Yesterday I cracked open my case and did a bit of dusting. I even popped the GPU out of the slot and moved around a few power supply cords. When I go to fire up a game last night, my fan is going NUTS. I'm finally getting around to finishing up the first Witcher, and I'm near positive I've never heard the fan do this before. I start to second guess myself and think maybe it has but I really know it hasn't. Plus, there's no way this game should tax my system so much (right?).

To make matters worse, I recently installed Afterburner. So I Alt-Tab, start it up and see that one of my cores is at 100%. A bit of digging around and I eventually figure out this is okay and probably not the issue. I think maybe Win 7 reinstalled my GPU drivers because I popped the card out, so I uninstall my drivers, delete a few of driver programs from program files and do a clean reinstall. I was hoping the "automatic" Win 7 driver install (if it even happened) over my existing drivers maybe messed something up, and so the game wasn't using the GPU anymore (I know, I'm reaching here).

Still the fan freaks out. I mean, I can barely hear sound over this jet engine vacuum in my computer case. So I crack open the case to see if maybe I messed up airflow or see if I should do some dusting of an enormous bunny that clogged up the works somewhere.

Seems like there's nothing too egregious or glaringly wrong. When I twist off the CPU fan to see if I should dust off the heat sink, I feel a little wiggle. Huh, is that normal? There's a bit of "play" on the heatsink. I wiggle a few of the "pegs" that connect it to the motherboard and a couple feel tight, but a couple feel loose. I "open" and "close" them a few times, move the pin up and down and finally feel that satisfying "snap" as it drops into place on the motherboard. LOL, at least two of my heat sink pegs must have popped up from the motherboard when I popped the GPU into its PCI slot earlier in the day (pushing down on the GPU "over there" must have caused the peg to pop up and out).

I pop them all open (or closed - who knows - maybe I never locked them last time I mucked about with my CPU heatsink) and I push them all down until I hear that click from each one in turn. No more wiggle in the heat sink, it's nice and snug against my mobo / CPU.

Restart computer, fire up game, The Witcher is now totally quiet, all is right in my computer's world again. I don't think my CPU temps ever got too high and if they did it would have been over the course of under an hour.

And that's the story of "Why Ixamyakxim Will Be Reapplying Thermal Compound to His CPU Tonight" (Right? If there was wiggle room between the CPU and heatsink I should probably put on a fresh blob shouldn't I?)
Posted March 08, 2017
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BrokenBull: What? No Shovel Knight for 75% off ??? ヾ ( ＞ ,___, ⊙〃)ノ
In regards to Yacht Games and the recent of jacking up the price "because of all the free content that was added" proving that it's not really free content has given me the resolve to commit to memory the names of principal individuals involved and to never purchase anything that has any involvement of any those said principals or Yacht Games. I wonder how "not devaluing" your game is going to work for you guys in the long run?
Posted March 08, 2017
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HereForTheBeer: I think I'm hitting a wall in my library. 500 games on sale, give or take, and I came up with just one to pick up. Well, two, but I'm not yet ready to get The Witcher 3. And it's not that I already have a huge percentage of the catalog - sitting at 312 now with the purchase of Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships yesterday.

Anyway, another nice sale.
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Luned: Funny, "Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships" is likely to be my only purchase this time around too. A tip of the hat to Treasure, who keeps up the "Where to find missing game manuals" GOGMix, for finding a manual for the expansion!

I've tried to play the base Sea Dogs in the past, but could never find so much as a list of command keys for it, much less a manual, rendering it unplayable.
Thanks for the tip on the manual.
Posted March 08, 2017
I've been mildly interested in Risen 3 for a while. It looks like a poor man's Witcher 3/Shadow of Mordor, but with pirateships! Reviews seem to be generally negative though. Has anyone here played it? Would it be worth it at this price?
Posted March 08, 2017
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Luned: Funny, "Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships" is likely to be my only purchase this time around too. A tip of the hat to Treasure, who keeps up the "Where to find missing game manuals" GOGMix, for finding a manual for the expansion!

I've tried to play the base Sea Dogs in the past, but could never find so much as a list of command keys for it, much less a manual, rendering it unplayable.
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HereForTheBeer: Thanks for the tip on the manual.
Ditto. This was one of my purchases as well.
Posted March 08, 2017
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HereForTheBeer: Thanks for the tip on the manual.
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hummer010: Ditto. This was one of my purchases as well.
It'll be one of mine as well. Still haven't decided entirely on the rest, so I'll give myself a few more days to decide.
Posted March 08, 2017
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Random_Coffee: I've been mildly interested in Risen 3 for a while. It looks like a poor man's Witcher 3/Shadow of Mordor, but with pirateships! Reviews seem to be generally negative though. Has anyone here played it? Would it be worth it at this price?
Play the first Risen instead. It's by far the best game of the trilogy.
Posted March 08, 2017
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haydenaurion: I thought about getting this at one point, then I saw how "intimidating" it was from watching a few videos and noped the hell out lol. :P
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Ghorpm: Yeah, I can understand that. But the game is EPIC! And dirty cheap right now.
I can definitely second this. When you get past the learning curve, you've got a game you can sink hundreds of hours in. It's also nice to see an RTS that has ACTUAL STRATEGY in it :D

Just for the hell of it, I tried a completely aggressive play through on an 80 planet map. I was able to take 43 planets and got the AI's rage-o-meter to over 800. It seemed like I was doing okay until the AI warped in 54,000 laser gatlings and 34 starships at a choke point I was holding. It took me like half an hour to clear those ships but when I did the AI warps in another 24,000 fighters. I lose the choke point, AI splits his forces and goes on a death march through my planets and eventually destroys my home world.

Good fun :)
Posted March 08, 2017
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phaolo: ...
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Technobabylon are absolutely worth their current price. Yes, they are both a bit on the short side, but if quality matters over quantity, they should be a no-brainer.
I warmly recommend a controller for Brothers, though, as it may be a little difficult to move the two protagonists precisely enough with a keyboard.
Post edited March 08, 2017 by Enebias
Posted March 08, 2017
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vsr: GOG, post your sale's art to imgur. Let's keep that tradition going. :)
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mecharma: Our best men are on it!
"Our Favorite 3D Action Games" lists Darksiders II on the front page but only contains Darksiders (1).
Posted March 08, 2017
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phaolo: - Technobabylon - 3$
I highly recommend Technobabylon, it's a great technothriller!

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Enebias: Yes, they are both a bit on the short side, but if quality matters over quantity, they should be a no-brainer.
Hey Enebias! ;) About Technobabylon, I wouldn't say it's on the short side -- at least didn't felt like it when I played it; if I remember correctly, I finished it in a week with about two hours of playing each day so I guess it was around the 10-12 hours mark for me. Anyway, it's a great game no matter it's length. :)
Posted March 08, 2017
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BrokenBull: ヾ ( ＞ ,___, ⊙〃)ノ
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Chandoraa: Whoa, what is that?!
Ha, ha..."Just joking"
Posted March 08, 2017
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Vythonaut: ...
Hey Vytho! ;)
Long time no see. I have been mostly absent in the last few months... how are things going here?
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